Red Hat Enterprice Linux 5.9 Has Built-In Support For Hyper-V

Yesterday, Red Hat announced general availability of RHEL 5.9. I’m no penguin-hugger, but RHEL seems to me to be the favoured Linux in the enterprise (with cousin CentOS being the leader in the public cloud, at least in my experience).

Microsoft does occasionally release updates to the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V (aka Hyper-V integration components for Linux). And in my experience, Linux admins don’t upgrade their Linux installations to newer versions too often. So there is a note from Red Hat:

Customers can continue to install and utilize the LIS drivers provided and supported by Microsoft.

That means you can upgrade the built-in Linux Integration Services to a newer version with more functionality. Based on what we saw recently, Dynamic Memory support appears to be coming to Linux in the near future.

This is pretty great news. For Hyper-V newbies, this means that you don’t have to install “VMware Tools”-like add-ons to get a RHEL guest OS working intelligently and with best performance on Hyper-V. Those add-ons are built into the OS.

What I’d like to figure out now is if we can deploy newer versions of the Linux Integration Services using the Linux support in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1

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